OMG. I wrote my banner doing it's read of rom for character maps and
sure, it takes a while to print a banner out using print statements, but
it's bearable. But, my memory dumper is gosh awful slow. I have a
subroutine to convert hex to dec, one to convert dec to hex, and one to
pad strings given a length and character. My code calls the dec to hex
conversion routine as it loops through a set of decimal addresses
(destined for peeks). It then calls peek and the pad routine to print
lines of the form:
0000: 36 B6 21 17 46 00 6A 06 6.!.F.j.
0008: B5 F0 3D 2E 51 E3 A6 26 ..=.Q..&
But, ooohhh sooooo slllloooowww!
I figure I can inline the conversion routines or write them in machine
code and CALL them which will speed them up, but I'm not sure about the
padding stuff. I can probably do them in machine code, and I'll
definitely try that, but in the meantime, is there a trick to fast
output I'm missing?
Regards,
Will
